Arthur Jafa is a filmmaker and cinematographer. He has exhibited his work at major institutions and galleries. For this issue, Arthur Jafa invited artists Mark Leckey, Dana Hoey, Torkwase Dyson, Frida Orupabo and Rashaad Newsome to engage in in-depth conversations on their artistic practice, race, digital culture, and many other topics, accompanied by a selection of their work. The issue also features excerpts from Arthur Jafa's notebooks with photomontages that he has been keeping since the 1990s together with new work and a text by the artist. Also selected are works by photographer Man Ray and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Saidiya Hartman, as well as the short story Milk of Paradise by New Wave science fiction author James Tiptree Jr.